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So, on on our bikes and see how many Bible studies we sweaty-palm-Tuesday, I yanked on my can sign up today.” Crazy, but fun.) itchy new clothes and entered school—cold And in the process, we learned that it doesnʼt turkey. take a seminary graduate to give a good evangelis- I played a lot of catch-up that first year and tic sermon. One Sabbath morning, a nearly-illiter- learned a lot about the Christian life. But where ate laymen got up during the sermon time and told I really got my baptism in what the Christian life us that heʼd started giving Bible studies, and he is all about came the next year when we went to sure could use some help! South America as missionaries. The guys on our little fútbol team laughed out loud, but by the end of the hour, we were so iÃÖÃÊ>`Ê À°Ê-iÕÃÃ moved, we hit the streets that very afternoon with As a third-grader with about a three-word sign-up cards and snared 18 students for studies. Spanish vocabulary—Buenos Días, Cha-cha-cha, Within two months, we had 125. and Jesús (it rhymes with “Dr. Seuss”)—we en- Then (another lesson!) we visited each person tered a world where toilets rarely existed, let alone on our list at least one Sabbath a month—rode by the Robert Fulghum advice to flush them. on our bikes, said hello, and asked them how the On our first Sabbath, we sang Spanish hymns lessons were coming. without the bleariest notion what the words were Thatʼs how our witnessing got done. And when all about. evangelism time came around, the fútbol team led out in the series. Needless to say, our Bible stu- 7 >ÌÊÊi>Ài` dents showed up in force! But what I really remember from that first year in South America were the back-to-basics funda- jDÊ6Õ mentals of being an active Christian. The same kind of thing is starting to happen in First, I learned, “Itʼs not you, itʼs Jesús.” Talk many Northwestern churches today. And surpris- about helpless when Jesús is about the only word ingly, our Spanish-speaking brothers and sisters are you know! But thatʼs where the power lies. often leading the way. We also learned the value of wandering Noé Ortíz, 11, a young preacher in Chehalis, around—being there for the people. (Our Anglo Wash., is pictured on our cover. A few weeks ago, culture in America falls far short in this virtue.) Noé preached an evangelistic series that led to five And itʼs not what you say while wandering around, baptisms. `ÜÊ°Ê-V ÜÃÜÊi`ÌÃÊ itʼs your attitude of openness and availability. He knows that when it comes right down to it, Openness and goodwill say about 99.9 percent of “The yoke is easy, the Holy Spirit is with us, so Ì iÊ ,Ê>`ÊÜÀÌiÃÊ the important stuff. how can we fail!” vÀÊ6>VÕÛiÀ]Ê7>Ã °Ê Thatʼs really about everything Noé really needed to know as he began his evangelistic meetings. iÀiÊ iÊÃÊÃ ÜÊÌiÀ ÕÃÌÊ ÊÌ Another point. We learned that itʼs not so impor- Letʼs not forget that weʼre on a super, winning ÛiÜ}Ê jÊ"ÀÌâ°Ê tant how you share your faith—but that you learn team this month as many of us open our hearts and to enjoy it. 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A dapper pews onto a cool, grassy hill near the crystal waters captain of low Spanish nobility of Galilee. struts from his ship and commandingly For the children, itʼs a story; for the scholar, a marches onto the shores of eastern Mexico, dissertation (Noé cites archeological and socio- claiming the land for Spain. logical findings); for the sick at heart, a recipe for His name is Hernán Cortez, and he has revival. reached a crossroads in his short and sorry life. >«ÌÃÃ Tingling with the importance of his landing, he Afterward, he smiles, “I made quite a few modi- names the area “Veracruz,” or “Real Cross,” his fications in the sermon tonight. I cut it way down. j]ÊÜ Ê third anchorage on the American continents. When I use this sermon in an evangelistic series, I Like Astronaut Neil Armstrongʼs giant step include a lot more.” ÌÕÀi`Ê££Ê>ÃÌÊ onto the moon exactly 450 years later, the Indeed, Noé teamed up with his father, Noé Sr., a Conquistadorʼs footfall on North American soil few weeks ago and delivered a “reaping series” of changes the world forever. evangelistic meetings, leading to five baptisms. Ì ]ÊV>½ÌÊ xääÊ9i>ÀÃÊ>ÌiÀ “I started preaching when I was five years old, What Cortez could not have known is that down in Mexico,” says Noé, who says he comes by almost five centuries later, a preaching prodigy the gift naturally. ÀiiLiÀÊ>Ê named Noé (Noah) Ortiz would be born near “At first, I needed help from my Dad in writing Veracruz. the sermons, and he still helps me when I need ÌiÊÜ iÊ Or that Noé would be caught up in a 21st- more information,” he says. century movement every bit as important as the But Noé Sr., a gifted singer in his own right, is European migration to the Americas. quick to acknowledge that his son has the greater iÊÜ>ÃÊÌÊ That movement brought Noé to Chehalis, Wash., gift. “He can memorize just like that, very fast,” he 11 months ago. And Noé, like the migration that says, snapping his fingers. “Itʼs a gift that I unfor- is sweeping Hispanic people north by the mil- tunately do not have.” «Ài>V }ÊÌ iÊ lions each year, is infusing and enriching North Noé likes to work on two or three sermons at a American Adventism with vitality rarely seen since time, using many stories and the occasional visual }Ã«i° the days of James and Ellen White.

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